A business is suing a former client after they left a negative review on Yelp. The review was left despite having a non-disparagement clause in the The issue stems from a negative review that a client, Michelle Duchouquette, left for Prestigious Pets, a local pet sitting business in Dallas, Texas. But Prestigious Pets includes a non-disparagement […]
Google AMP Launching in Search Results February 24
We have known that Google plans to launch AMP sometime at the end of February. But AdAge is now reporting that AMP is scheduled to go live in the mobile search results on February 24th. All signs are pointing to their planned eminent launch of AMP. Google added AMP error reporting to Search Console and […]
Google Adds AMP Help to Webmaster Help Forums
Having problems implementing AMP on your pages? Google has added a new webmaster help forum section specifically for AMP, and added some new pinned posts with quick answers. John Mueller announced the new AMP forums for all questions related to AMP. We now have a category for AMP / Accelerated Mobile Pages here in the […]
Using SEO Research to Discover Why Organic Rankings Dropped
Does this sound like you? “We redid our website and our organic search traffic plummeted. We have been losing organic search traffic continually for months. We have lost rankings for key positions in Google.” If I had a nickel for every time one of our clients said this to us, I would have at least […]
Google Wants Feedback on Adding More Days to Search Analytics
Why do you want to see more than the standard 90 days in Search Analytics within Google Search Console? Zineb, a Google Webmaster Trends Analyst wants to know what webmasters would use the increased data for. While the common answer is seeing either seasonality or year over year data, here are many more reasons webmasters […]
Google Launches AMP Demo – Accelerated Mobile Pages
If you have been working to get your pages ready for AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages, but are unsure how your content will actually appear in live AMP results, you will love this new testing tool. Google has launched a new AMO demo tool that allows you to view the search results with AMP specific […]
No Rich Snippets? Quality of Other Sites in Same Search Results Plays Role
Zineb Ait Bahajji shared some pretty important information on Twitter this week for those who want rich snippets for their site – or who are struggling to get rich snippets to show up. She said that Google doesn’t want to clutter up the search results too much but that another factor comes into play when […]
Google Still Considering Adding More Days to Search Analytics
One of the biggest requests that many SEOs have is to have more days worth of data in Search Analytics. While there are tools designed to download the data every X number of weeks, having the data within Search Console would be much more optimal for many SEOs. @Jonny_J_ we are thinking about it, but […]
Google Adds Crawl Status Reports to Data Anomalies Page
Google has renamed the former “Crawl Error Report” to “Crawl Errors/Crawl Status Report” on their Data Anomalies page. Google uses this page to alert users to updates, changes or issues with various Search Console features and reports. Here is how it appears now: Nothing has been added to the newly renamed section. So it could […]
Google Now Including App Indexing Results for Current News Stories
Google seems to be stepping up their app indexing game. They are now app indexing content that is less than an hour old and is giving searchers the option of either opening it in the app, or continuing to the regular website instead. Here is one showing a news example from 35 minutes before. You […]